Binance has publicly identified and blacklisted several individuals and companies for pretending to be official “listing agents,” offering bounties as high as $5 million for information that helps stop this fraud. The direct strike against a long-running scam aims to protect crypto projects from paying large fees for false promises of getting tokens listed on […]
The collective value of meme-inspired cryptocurrencies went past $150 billion in December 2024, driven by a wave of political-themed tokens following the U.S. election. This record-breaking peak, documented in CoinGecko’s newly released 2025 State of Meme Coins report, was followed by a steep 69% decline within a year, illustrating the extreme volatility and sentiment-driven nature […]
Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov on Tuesday outlined a master plan for 2026, wherein he detailed how Aave Labs intends to scale the protocol into a core piece of global on-chain financial infrastructure through three main initiatives: Aave V4, Horizon, and the Aave App. According to Kulechov, Aave V4 will introduce a complete redesign […]
Coinbase has filed lawsuits against Illinois, Michigan, and Connecticut, while challenging state efforts to regulate prediction markets and asking federal courts to clarify who has oversight authority. In its filings, the crypto exchange is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, arguing that prediction markets fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) […]
The derivatives market for Ethereum (ETH) on Binance hit a new extreme on December 19, when leverage tied to ETH positions climbed to its highest level ever recorded. The move shows traders leaning heavily into borrowed positions at a time when Ethereum’s price remains fragile, raising the stakes for both sharp rebounds and sudden pullbacks. […]
Around 31,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Dec. 19, and they have a notional value of roughly $2.7 billion. This expiry event is smaller than average, so it will not impact spot markets, which have been sliding lower all week. Various factors have contributed to the continued sell-off, including another Chinese Bitcoin mining crackdown, […]
Coinbase’s ‘Everything app’ has officially launched, bringing social features, trading, payments, and earning tools into a single platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has also confirmed plans to introduce stock trading and prediction markets on the platform. Tokenized Social and Trading Platform First announced in July, the Base app was positioned as a rebrand of Coinbase Wallet, […]
Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research and a central figure in the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire, has been quietly moved out of a federal prison facility after serving roughly 11 months of a two-year sentence. The 31-year-old was transferred on October 16 from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, […]
Bitcoin (BTC) is showing clear signs of entering an increased risk-off phase as market structure indicators shift into bearish territory. According to analyst Axel Adler Jr., both the Structure Shift composite indicator and the Bull-Bear Index point to growing downward pressure, particularly in the derivatives market. Risk-Off Signals Flash Red The Structure Shift signal, which […]
Bitcoin’s average price behavior after the RSI (relative strength index) drops below 30 has nearly always rebounded, according to the macro research head at Global Macro Investor, Julien Bittel. He shared a chart showing the average market path the last five times Bitcoin’s RSI broke below 30. The analyst also rejected the popular belief that […]